Largely due to the efforts of activist female filmmakers including Allison Anders, Ava DuVernay and Maria Giese, agenda-driven academics such as Martha Lauzen and Stacy Smith (all five pictured above), and institutions such as The Bunche Center at UCLA, inclusion has been a critical and still unresolved factor for the past two decades in the Hollywood movie equation.
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This article makes very valid points. It points out the strives we have made toward inclusion this year alone and throughout the last two decades. We see the change coming. We see that steps are being made and to some people those steps are good enough. They should be celebrated for sure, but we should not fall into complacency that these steps are good enough. We shouldn’t have to celebrate a female getting nominated for best director as some major achievement, it should be a norm, not an incredible outlier. A great quote taken from this article that sums up this feeling to a tee is this, “revolutionaries challenge and shake up the Hollywood establishment, exclusion remains the norm.” We have been in in this state of constant rebellion from the establishment in an effort to make inclusion, not exclusion the norm, but for some reason we haven’t made it yet, but that can not discourage the fight, but only make us fight harder for what woman and people of color deserve in the entertainment industry (we need to challenge the entire system of gender and racial exclusion but that’s a whole other comment)
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